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Commands by joedhon

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find . -maxdepth 1 -size 0c -delete
2012-04-18 15:01:48
User: joedhon
Functions: find
9
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Remove all zero size files from current directory (not recursive)
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cd / && touch ./\-i
2012-04-05 20:55:37
User: joedhon
Functions: cd touch
-11
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annoy your sysadmin colleague

Somehow, i prefer forcing to rm interactively to accidently rm'ing everything...

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dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/somedisk
2012-01-24 09:13:15
User: joedhon
Functions: dd
-5
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Completly blank a disk

Same game as #10096 . loop as many times as you like.

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title() { string=( $@ ); echo ${string[@]^} }
2011-10-14 12:43:45
User: joedhon
Functions: echo
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return a titlecased version of the string

Needs Bash4. Found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264428/converting-string-to-lower-case-in-bash-shell-scripting alongside a few other tricks.

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shutdown -h +240
2011-05-02 18:38:57
User: joedhon
Functions: shutdown
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shutdown pc in a 4 hours

you may as well use shutdown -h 18:32 to shutdown your machine at 18:32.

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find . -name '*.epub' -exec sh -c 'a={}; ebook-convert $a ${a%.epub}.mobi --still --more --options' \;
2011-04-21 22:03:01
User: joedhon
Functions: find sh
Tags: recursive calibre ebook conversion epub
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Recursive script to find all epubs in the current dir and subs, then convert to mobi using calibre's ebook-convert utility

-exec sh -c 'var={}; do something with var' lets you do things in a sub-shell

while it's faster to type, I'm not sure if dozens of subshells execute quicker than the while loops.

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println() {echo -n -e "\e[038;05;${2:-255}m";printf "%$(tput cols)s"|sed "s/ /${1:-=}/g"}
2011-01-09 18:08:18
User: joedhon
Functions: printf sed
Tags: sed tput printf
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Print a row of characters across the terminal

function for .bash_aliases that prints a line of the character of your choice in the color of your choice across the terminal.

Default character is "=", default color is white.

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